What ever happened to the work described in these slides as “BLOC: A Trait-Based Collections Library”? It seemed super cool, both from the perspective of cleaning and beautifying the existing implementation, and also the possibility of composing new collection-like objects with the exact behavior needed (e.g. no more `ArrayedCollection>>#add:` shouldNotImplement hacks…
What ever happened to the work described in these slides https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/bloc-5306443/5306443#1 as “BLOC: A Trait-Based Collections Library”? It seemed super cool, both from the perspective of cleaning and beautifying the existing implementation, and also the possibility of composing new collection-like objects with the exact behavior needed (e.g. no more ArrayedCollection>>#add:
shouldNotImplement hacks…
We did not have the resources to put that in production.
As some points we use Nile a stream collection using traits, then Zn came along for the better.
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Stéphane Ducasse
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Thanks for the explanation. It seemed like some really cool work. Maybe some day…